Enormous amounts of information are produced every day, all over the world. but very little of it is true. In this paper, we describe the modeling component of a current events an...
Portable, reusable test collections are a vital part of research and development in information retrieval. Reusability is difficult to assess, however. The standard approach— si...
Ben Carterette, Evangelos Kanoulas, Virgiliu Pavlu...
Previous work on Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval has shown the inadequateness of semantic and syntactic structures for both document retrieval and categoriza...
In this paper we investigate unsupervised population of a biomedical ontology via information extraction from biomedical literature. Relationships in text seldom connect simple ent...
Cartic Ramakrishnan, Pablo N. Mendes, Shaojun Wang...
In previous work [BGHK92, BGHK93], we have studied the random-worlds approach--a particular (and quite powerful) method for generating degrees of belief (i.e., subjective probabil...
Fahiem Bacchus, Adam J. Grove, Joseph Y. Halpern, ...